Garment.



V. M.. SCHMITZ.

GARMENT. APBLIOATION IILED SEPT. 1o, 1910.

Patented May 3o, 1911.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS innrTnn sTaTas raTnnT @Tirion VALENTINE M. SCHMTZ, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

GARMENT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3d, Miti.

Application led September 1.0, 1910. Serial No. 581,348.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that VALENTINE M. SCHMITZ, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have -invented a new and ImprovedGarment, of which the ioldurable in construction, which can be in-yexpensively produced, in which wrinkling or puckering atthe .waistportion is avoidy ed, and which obviates the use of suspenders, straps,a belt, or other ordinary means at present used for supporting thegarment. The invention consists in the construction and combination ofparts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forthin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyi ing drawings ormin a part ofthis specili- A -planation ofiny, invention, .it'should be,

cation, in which simi ar .characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in all the views, and infwhich` Figure l is -a perspective viewshowing an embodiment of my invention in use; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary,perspective viewo part of a garment having my invention applied thereto;Fig. 3' is a cross section of the part of the garment shown in Fig. 2;Fig. 4l 1s a view similar to Fig. 2,.showing a certain part which isbroken away in Fig. 2; F 1g. 5 is a fragmentary, side elevation of partof a garment having a modied form ot my Ainvention applied thereto; Fig.6 is an interior elevation of ,art of the garment having a furthermodified form of my invention applied thereto; Fig. 7 is aI plan of apart of the garment shown in Fig. 6; and F 1g. 8

is a plan of the section on the line 8 8 of.

Fig. 6.

Before proceeding to a more detailed eX- clearly understood that whilethe same is particularly useful in connection with trousers of the usualconstruction, it can also be advantageously employed with mens, youths,or boys knee pants, bicycle pants, riding trousers, overalls, baseball,football, and golf or other sporting' garments, as well as with skirtsand the like.

While the invention is adapted for use lwith the styles of garmentsenumerated above, as well as others, I have illustrated the same asapplied for example, to trousers of the usual type. l

Certain of the details of of the invention, and can be varied inacconstruction shown for example herewith, form no party cordance withindividual preference and special conditions, without departing from theunderlying spirit of the invention. Referring more particularly to thedrawings, the trousers 10, have legs 11, and a waist portion 12, of theusual construction. The legs have side seams 18, at which are locatedthe side pockets 14. 'In the preferred form of the device, the sideseams, at the upper ends, form the usual darts 15. Near each of the sideseams, and preferably at the rear thereof, the waist portion of thetrousers is provided with openings 16 i formed at darts 17. At theopenings, the

waist portion terminates in flaps 18 and 19. These flaps are formed ofdouble thicknesses of material and are so arranged .that the members 18are received telescopically within the members 19. The openings, thereffore, have the appearance of ordinary darts, as the outer layers ofmaterial of the naps 19 overlie the correspondino' layers of material ofthe fiaps 18. rlhis 1s clearly shown in Figs. l and 4.

I employ extensible members 20 consisting of preferably triangularpieces of elastic webbing or any other suitable material. lTheextensible pieces 2,0 are located at the openings lG, being sewed orotherwise secured in place betweenthe layersor thicknesses of materialof the flaps 18 and 19. The eX- tensible pieces are secured' at theiredges, within the fiaps 18 and 19, and render the waist portion of thetrousers extensible. Owing to the telescoping arrangement of the flaps,the Waist portion can he stretched without disclosing the elasticmateriai. rihis is at all times hidden by the deps.

` @in Fig-'5' I lhave shown a modified form the invention, in which thetrousers 21 flaps, the ends being sewed or otherwise secured in place."

In Figs. 6,', 7 and 8, is illustrated a fu'rther modified form of theinvention, 1n

which the trousers 29 have .the waist portion 30 provided withopeningsl. The waist portion terminates in iiaps 32 and 33 4of theopenings, the liaps being arranged to telescope as in theabove-described forms of t-he invention. A strip 34 of extensiblematerial is secured within the {iaps by sewing or in any other suitablemannen and serves the same purpose as the elements 2O and 28 beforementioned. A reinforcing elastic strip 35 is arranged at the inside oftlfe inner layer of material forming the flap 32, and

is secured at one end, between a lining 36 and the inside of the flap32, and at the other end is fastened to the inner layer of materialforming the iap 33.

-While l have preferred to fashion the gar ment with at least twoopenings having the extensible members, a single opening, 1f so desired,can be employed at any suitable part of the waistportion. lf necessary,on the other hand, more than two of the openings can belemployed, todistribute the elastic material more uniformly about the waist portion.

Having thus described my invention, l

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eeaese claim as new, and desire to lsecure by Letters Patent:

l. A garment having a waist portion.

formed with an opening, and having one edge of said opening extendingover the other, whereby the other is concealed, and an elasticconnection between said edges and concealed by said rst-mentioned edge.

2. A garment, having a waist 'portion formed with an opening, andterminating at said opening in double iaps', one of said flaps beingreceived telescopically within the other of said flaps, and an elasticmaterial arranged within said iaps and secured' at opposite edges tosaid respective flaps.

3. A garment, having a waist portion formed with an opening, andterminatingat said opening in iiaps formed from two thicknesses ofmaterial, said flaps being closed at the top and open at the adjacentedges one f of said iaps being arranged to telescope between the twothicknesses of material of the other of said flaps, and an elasticmember arranged within said flaps and secured thereto, whereby saidflaps serve to conceal said elastic material at all times.

et. A garment having at the waist portion thereof an opening, andterminating at the edges of said openings in flaps, one of said fiapsbeing double and having the other of said iiaps received telescopicallytherein,

and an elastic material arranged within said double flap and secured tosaid respective YIn testimony whereof have signed my name to thisspecification in 'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' VALENTlNE M'. SClib/ITZ. vWitnesses JOHN K. BnAonvoenL, PniLrP D.Ronin-inns.

